Sitemap Generator release notes

  • Release version: Store
  • Updated December 4, 2025
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    Summary of Sitemap Generator release notes

    The Sitemap Generator application in ServiceNow helps admin users create and manage XML sitemaps, enhancing SEO for public portals and improving user navigation. It streamlines sitemap generation by providing automated features and role management.

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    Key Features

    • Granular Role Management: Introduction of the "sitemapadmin" role, allowing specific sitemap capabilities without requiring full admin rights.
    • Automatic URL Validation: Ensures only publicly accessible portal URLs are included in the sitemap, reducing manual checks.
    • Customizable Sitemap Pages: Control the number of URLs per sitemap page through the glide.sitemap.page.count property, with a default of 750 URLs.
    • Code Templates: Facilitates quick sitemap creation with predefined templates in the Script and Static XML fields.
    • Hreflang Tag Inclusion: Automatically adds hreflang tags for multilingual pages, simplifying SEO for global content.

    Key Outcomes

    With the Sitemap Generator, ServiceNow customers can efficiently manage their sitemaps, enhance search engine visibility, and ensure optimal user experience on public portals. The introduction of role-specific capabilities allows for better access control while maintaining security and functionality.

    Version history for the Sitemap Generator application on the ServiceNow Store.

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    For details on system requirements and family compatibility, view the application listing on the ServiceNow Store website.

    Version history

    Version 1.3.0 - December 2025
    As a part of the change a new role has been introduced "sitemap_admin" which will have all rights overall all sitemap capabilities.Change: Previously you required an "admin" role, but not we are introducing a new granular role "sitemap_admin" for this. Users with admin role will still continue to have the same functionality as before.
    Version 1.2.0 - August 2025
    Fixed minor bugs.
    Version 1.1.4 - May 2024
    Fixed: Improved the instance security by adjusting the configuration of the access control list (ACL).
    Version 1.1.1 - April 2023
    • Fixed:
      • Security issues.
      • Updated the Last Modified Date to be in compliance with Google SEO standard.
      • Removed the changefreq attribute from the sitemap index file.
    Version 1.1.0 - February 2023
    • New:
      • Automatic validation that portal URLs are public: Avoid errors and manually validation that portal URLs are publicly accessible with built-in validation. Upon generation of the sitemap, portal URLs that are not publicly accessible are not added to the sitemap automatically. However, this does not apply for URLs with custom domains instead of the ServiceNow domain.
      • Specify the number of URLs per sitemap page: Control how many pages are in a sitemap by configuring the number of URLs to include per page with the glide.sitemap.page.count system property. The default value is 750, and the maximum value is 5,000. Previously, the default value was 5,000.
      • Code templates for sitemap definitions: Create sitemaps quickly with code templates and guidance included in the Script and Static XML fields where the sitemap contents are defined.
      • Automatic inclusion of hreflang tags: Avoid manually adding hreflang tags with built-in support for automatically including hreflang tags in the generated sitemap XML for pages in multiple languages with hreflang tags configured.
    Version 1.0.6 - December 2022
    • Changed: Made the Sitemap Generator application available to activate or update from the platform with the Utah release by navigatingto All > System Applications > All Available Applications > All.
    • Fixed: An issue with generating the url elements in the sitemap XML.
    Version 1.0.2 - August 2022

    The ServiceNow Sitemap Generator application allows admin users to define and automatically generate XML sitemaps to improve search engine optimization of their publicly accessible portals, including all public article pages, and help portal users find the information they need.